Preparation and characterization of flame retardant automobile fabric

Abstract

The flame retardant polyester fiber used in seat cover of automobile is very important, because it has excellent function of safety when a car spontaneously ignites. In order to reduce material cost, several fabrics were designed and developed using flame retardant polyester fiber and ordinary polyester fiber interweave in this work. After test weaving and testing, the 8 fabric samples of the flame retardancy were all up to the national standard in flame-retardant function. The 1# fabric sample was 76.32% in ratio of flame-retardant polyester and the small jacquard stitching double weave, it was not only reached flame retardant best but also better decoration function. Meanwhile, flame retardant performance would be improved with coverage ratio of flame-retardant polyester on fabric surface. So, this conclusion can be useful to development of flame retardant fabric in automobile seat cover. The new product of development will be security, comfortable and beautiful and will adapt to needs of automobile industry.